ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Mind-Wandering during Personal Music Listening in Everyday Life: Music-Evoked Emotions Predict Thought Valence.
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- The Relative Accuracy of Different Methods for Measuring Mind Wandering Subtypes: A Systematic Review.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Musicotherapy mobile applications: what level of evidence and potential role in psychiatric care? A systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Solitary silence and social sounds: music can influence mental imagery, inducing thoughts of social interactions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Curiosity and Mind Wandering During Music Listening Are Negatively Correlated.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Scoping Review on the Use of Music for Emotion Regulation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The role of mood and arousal in the effect of background music on attentional state and performance during a sustained attention task.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Thematic Contents of Mental Imagery are Shaped by Concurrent Task-Irrelevant Music.Imagination, cognition and personality · 2023Article
- Immersive and maladaptive daydreaming and divergent thinking in autism spectrum disorders.Imagination, cognition and personality · 2023Article
- Influence of music on the hearing and mental health of adolescents and countermeasures.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Effect of music intervention on subjective scores, heart rate variability, and prefrontal hemodynamics in patients with chronic pain.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Research has shown that mind-wandering, negative mood, and poor wellbeing are closely related, stressing the importance of exploring contexts or tools that can stimulate positive thoughts and images. While music represents a promising option, work on this topic is still scarce with only a few studies published, mainly featuring laboratory or online music listening tasks. Here, I used the experience sampling method for the first time to capture mind-wandering during personal music listening in everyday life, aiming to test for the capacity of music to facilitate beneficial styles of mind-wandering and to explore its experiential characteristics. Twenty-six participants used a smart-phone application that collected reports of thought, mood, and emotion during music listening or other daily-life activities over 10 days. The application was linked to a music playlist, specifically assembled to induce positive and relaxing emotions. Results showed that mind-wandering evoked during music and non-music contexts had overall similar characteristics, although some minor differences were also observed. Most importantly, music-evoked emotions predicted thought valence, thereby indicating music as an effective tool to regulate thoughts via emotion. These findings have important applications for music listening in daily life as well as for the use of music in health interventions.
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